Editing Southern California (section)

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Castillo-Munoz|first=Veronica|year=2016|title=The Other California: Land, Identity and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands|publisher=University of California Press}}
* {{cite book|editor-last1=Deverell|editor-first1=William|editor-last2=Igler|editor-first2=David|year=2013|title=A companion to California history|publisher=John Wiley & Sons}}
* {{cite book|last=Fogelson|first=Robert M.|year=1967|title=The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850–1930}}, focus on planning, infrastructure, water and business.
* {{cite book|last=Friedricks|first=William|year=1992|title=Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California}}, on Henry Edwards Huntington (1850–1927), railroad executive and collector, who helped build LA and southern California through the Southern Pacific railroad and trolleys.
* {{cite book|last=Garcia|first=Matt.|year=2001|title=A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970}}
* {{cite journal|last=Garcia|first=Mario T.|year=1972|title=A Chicano Perspective on San Diego History|journal=Journal of San Diego History|volume=18|issue=4|pages=14–21}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20020101212335/http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/72fall/chicano.htm online]
* {{cite book|last=Lotchin|first=Roger|year=2002|title=Fortress California, 1910–1961}} [https://www.amazon.com/Fortress-California-1910-1961-WARFARE-WELFARE/dp/0252071034/ excerpt and text search], covers military and industrial roles.
* {{cite book|last=Mills|first=James R.|year=1960|title=San Diego: Where California Began|publisher=San Diego: San Diego Historical Society}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20000818221714/http://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/wcb/wcb.htm revised edition online]
* {{cite book|last=O'Flaherty|first=Joseph S.|year=1972|title=An End and a Beginning: The South Coast and Los Angeles, 1850–1887}}
* {{cite book|last=O'Flaherty|first=Joseph S.|year=1978|title=Those Powerful Years: The South Coast and Los Angeles, 1887–1917}}
* {{cite book|last=Pryde|first=Philip R.|year=2004|title=San Diego: An Introduction to the Region|edition=4th}}, a historical geography
* {{cite journal|last=Shragge|first=Abraham.|year=1994|title=A new federal city: San Diego during World War II|journal=Pacific Historical Review|volume=63|issue=3|pages=333–361|doi=10.2307/3640970|jstor=3640970}} [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3640970 in JSTOR]
* {{cite book|last=Starr|first=Kevin|year=1997|title=The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s|pages=90–114}}, covers 1880s–1940
* {{cite book|last=Starr|first=Kevin|year=2004|title=Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003|pages=372–381}}
* {{cite book|last=Starr|first=Kevin|year=2011|title=Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963|pages=57–87}}